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| Church (Ruins of) - Continued [from p.41] | may have been a memorial monument of the clegy (clergy?) of the parish. Underneath the representation of a depressed arch is a crucifix, the figure of which is still comparatively perfect. Below is a vested altar, with antipendium and fringed superfrontal. Upon the former appears the letters "A. G.". To the right of the altar is seen the remains of a figure of a priest in his Eucharistic vestments. Upon the centre of the altar stands the chalice, and on the left the open missal and stand. On the left side of the altar runs a legend - pes satom, (in Old English characters,) possibly preces sanctorum, for both below and above the band on which the legend is sculptured are represented four heads, signifying the saints at rest, or the souls of the martyrs under the celestial altar. On the right side of the figure of our Blessed Lord upon the cross, which rises from a Calvary above and behind the altar, is a very beautiful representation of an angel carrying the Oblation to the Eternal Father. The angel holds a chalice, out of which springs a small figure of the Redeemer, and so is realized the meaning of the antient most beautiful prayer: "Supplices Te rogamus omnipotens Deus; jube hace perferri per manus sancti Angeli Tui in sublime[-] altare Tuum, in conspectu divinae Majestatis Tuae, etc," (We most humbly beseech Thee, O Almighty God, command these oblation[s] to be carried by the hands of Thy holy angels to Thy altar on high, in the sight of Thy Divine Majesty.) To the left of the figure of our blessed Saviour remains a representation of the blessed Virgin with her Divine Son. The latter figure is almost entirely destroyed, but the remains are visible to the careful observer. In the spandrils of the arch the letters "A.G.". are again repeated, together with the rose. No doubt these two ornaments, the tabernacle and this bas-relief were erected under the direction of Alexander Galloway, who was (we are informed) Vicar of Kinkell in the early part of the sixteenth century, and a prependary of the cathedral of Aberdeen. The Gilbertus de Gr------- mentioned in the above inscription is know (known?) to be Gilbert Graham of Morphie, referred to in the pedigree of the Forbeses; and on the other side of the stone is the following inscription: "Hic jacet honore illustrus et sanctu moram pietate ornatus Joannes Forbes d'Ardmurdo ejus cognominis haeres & qui anno aetatis suae 66 8 Jullii A.D. 1592 obiit." There are also the Forbes' arms, with the initials J.F., and a Greek inscription ("To me to live is Christ, and to die gain.") The earlier inscription was formerly supposed to be in memory of Sir J. Scrymgeour, "Grit Constabill of fair Dunde, "who was killed a Harlaw in 1411; but the mistake arose from an incorrect reading of the inscription. The Church of Kinkell it is stated, at one time formed a residence of the Knights Templar of Jerusalem. The parson of Kinkell was an ecclesiastic of no small importance, being patron of seven churches - Kinkell, Kintore, Skene, Kinellar, Kemnay, Dyce and Drumblade. Kinkell, by the way, is a Celtic name, [Continued p. 43] |
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[Page] 42Parish of Keith-Hall and Kinkell
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